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Santa Monica, Calif

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Description: Image of a beach crowded with people, small boats, and beach umbrellas just north of the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California. The Deauville Club (on the beach with towers) is in front of the bluffs of Palisades Park with a sign for "Yachtsmen," and a sign advertising "Sea Food Grotto, fish dinners, clam chowder and cocktails" is seen on a restaurant situated at the edge of the pier at right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1934?
Call number: photCL_555_01_1408
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North side of the pier - Santa Monica, California

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Image of people standing on the Santa Monica Municipal Pier in front of shops while peering over a railing at the ocean and beach in Santa Monica, California. Signs for stores on the pier include "Sea Food Grotto," "Chesapeake Cafe," "Fishing Tackle," and "ice cream bar."

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Wrestling match on beach, Santa Monica Athletic Club

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Image of a crowd amid beach umbrellas watching two wrestlers in an outdoor boxing ring on the beach in front of the Santa Monica Athletic Club in Santa Monica, California. The Santa Monica Athletic Club building and a cafe sign advertising "Clam Chowder" can be seen in the background. The man in the bottom right corner is wearing shorts with the initials "LAAC," for the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

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Santa Monica Pier sign

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Image of a line of people waving while standing under a neon sign for the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California. The sign reads "Santa Monica Yacht Harbor Sport Fishing and Boating Cafes." Santa Monica Pier Business Men’s Association president Dick Hernage dedicates the sign with Santa Monica officials, including Mayor Claude C. Crawford along with pier business owners and film actresses Martha O’Driscoll and Susan Hayward in 1941.

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Santa Monica, Cal

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Image of the Edgewater Club in the foreground, with the Grand Hotel behind it, and the Hippodrome, Deauville Club, and Santa Monica Pier visible in the distance, on the beach in Santa Monica, California. A sign that reads "Grand Hotel" is visible on the south side of the Grand Hotel.

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View of a hot air balloon on Santa Monica Pier

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Image of a crowd standing next to a basket and hot air balloon lying on the Santa Monica Pier as part of a promotion for the Columbia Pictures 1975 movie "Breakout" in Santa Monica, California. A sign that reads "Breakout" is attached to the side of the hot air balloon basket and "Sinbad's cocktails and dinners," "Cocky Moon Snack Bar," and "Holiday Inn" signs are visible. The roof of the Hippodrome is seen in the distance.

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Buildings along beach, Santa Monica

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Image of beach houses along the boardwalk, with Cafe Nat Goodwin on Crystal Pier and Ocean Park Pier (with roller coasters) in the distance, in Santa Monica, California. A sign for "Kensington Terrace, Residents Only ..." visible along road at left.

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Santa Monica, Calif

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